Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I play the piano and write music.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.